'Sex chip' being developed by scientists

[lovuian]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3886862/Sex-chip-being-developed-by-scientists.html

The chip works by sending tiny shocks from implanted electrodes in the brain.

The technology has been used in the United States to treat Parkinson's disease.

But in recent months scientists have been focusing on the area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex - this is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex.

A research survey conducted by Morten Kringelbach, senior fellow at Oxford University's department of psychiatry, found the orbitofrontal cortex could be a "new stimulation target" to help people suffering from anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure from such activities. His findings are reported in the Nature Reviews Neuroscience journal.

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Whoah

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. didn't Asimov write some stories about being "wired"

[Greybnk48]

2. Didn't Woody Allen have an Orgasmatron machine in one of his movies? n/t

[MercutioATC]

3. Sleeper (1973)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeper_(film)

[Orsino]

4. Finally, science comes to the rescuse of Lynn Cheney and Laura Bush. n/t

[Buzz Clik]

5. We'll need new definitions for "being chippy" and "feeling chipper"

and chip off the old block

[DavidMS]

6. It sounds weird...

But provided that no one uses it abuse anyone else, its kind of a cool idea. On the downside can you imagine that thing being written into pre-nups? Cyberneticaly enhanced Nymphomaniacs/Satyrists! Sounds like something out of Cyberpunk. That's what scares me. There are some interesting free will questions that it will raise. Forcible implantation? Forcible removal? Consent? Men talking their wifes and girlfriends into it and latter regretting it. This thing is way too abusable to be anything other than a research toy for many years.

[GoesTo11]

8. Is this funny or scary or both?

"A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn't like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed."

[lovuian]

7. of all the places they look at this to chip why don't they work

on making us smarter

not pleasure machines